Improvement in plows



`- of Binghamton, inthe county .of .Broome and 'the center of al1-arm projecting'from`the in- 4 shown, like parts and lettere are, used to indi- Y cate the parts.

A UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL J. .oLM's'TEu 0E BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK, AssiGNon To HIM.

V SELF, WARING S. WEED,. AND D. S.. AYRES, SAME PLACE.

IMPRovEMYEN-r IN- PLows.

Specificationforming-,part of LettersPatent No. 37,939, dated March 17, 1863.

.To al'whom tmay concern/ y l' Be it known that I,1SAMUEL J. QLMSTED,

vState of New York, have Vinvented a certain new and useful Improvement on Blows; and I dol hereby declare'that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference ybeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the marks andvletters thereon.

By the drawingsgforming part of this specicationare shown a plow, or so much thereof as may be; necessarywith "my improvement attached thereto, 'I Sigure,y 1fof-these`drawings 'representing aside viewjzo'f a plowon the'land side,I and Fig."2 being' a viewof apart of. a plow below av horizontal-line drawn' through ner surface-of the mold*-board..

,i In eachofthes'e iigures,whe rej like parts are The beam of the plowismarlqe@ a', the moldi board b,thelandside c, and thfhandles d.

ItwviDbeperceived that au amc, projects from lthe .inner surface ofthe mold-board, and; that another arm,` f, passesjrom'thz'landsidehandle down to vtlle'arm e.,V Thssirm e will' form part of the mold-boardcasting.` It gives s'upportto awheel, g, which is shown attached toit b'ya screw, h, the head of the screwbe V ing covered bya plated, V countersunk in the o utersu-rface ;of therwhejelgso that the entire I outersurface'. of the wheel is smooth and even.'- 'lhefwhee'l g forms a large'part-lnearly the.; whole-of the landsi'de ofthe plow. I tprof'l jectsa short Idistancelbelov'vthe bottom of the landsde andshare, and thus is not 'subject/'to the friction that is usual. to a fixed or 'rigid wheel-lands`ide is' what constitutes my improvement; and v What I thereforeclaimasmyinvention, and

desire to secure by Letterslatent, is-

` 1'. The attachment of a wheel upon the landside, forming a large part thereof andfproject ing below the bottom of the plow,while its exterioror vouter surfaceis in line 'with the land'- side, vfor the purpose of removing the` friction of the plow while at work,..as set forth. .v

.. 2. `Making-theV suppotingfarmc of the` wheel a part -of the mold-boardcastinga This specification signed-this 22d`-daye of November, .1862.

lands'ide, eitheron its side or bottom. -"This 

